Oh fuck this is terrible! The students are going to have to learn code now
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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We all know only the smart ones will do that.
Good example of why I don't rely on technology I don't control. I want my workflow to be future-proof and have a predictable cost.
Yes, when anyone proposes building our tools on top of these services I ask "what will happen to this when they start charging what it really costs to run these models?"
Good, maybe people will use it less.
So it begins. We are past the unlimited money stage and now the cuts begin to make AI somewhat profitable.
Expect more of that in the coming months.
They aren't even waiting for market saturation, they're just speed-running straight into enshittification now
They can't sustain the loss-lead trying to capture the market.
It's for the best.
Learning how code works is better than getting an LLM to produce convincing looking code without anyone having an understanding of how it works.
LLMs just teach students to paint themselves into a corner without them even realising why bad things keep happening to them.
Right. It's actually shocking that copilot is allowed at all. The next generation is going to be so fucking stupid.
I agree, but I learn best when I can ask questions a certain way to understand concepts, and as much as people may hate it, it's good at answering questions like that and people are often nasty when others ask questions they assume to be stupid.
Not that I'm a student.
it’s good at answering questions like that
Are you sure about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtBI2BvPKBQ
Remember: if you don't know enough about the topic in question to grade its answers then you're not judging its ability to answer accurately, you're judging it's ability to convince you.
Same could be said about everything online really.
Trust but verify, that's been the motto since forever.
people are often nasty when others ask questions they assume to be stupid.
It sounds to me like you might want to reevaluate the communities you're in. This sounds incredibly toxic.
And I agree, for simple questions, it can be helpful. I would caution against overreliance on the answers though. Even the best models available today hallucinate regularly. Always verify answers when they are important.
Also, learning to read documentation directly is a valuable skill to develop. Even if you don't rely on the documentation directly, reading a lot of it will make it easier to write documentation as well.
This is the goal of every ai company. They hate you and just want your money
I feel sorry for anyone relying on Copilot.
Same process as used by drug dealers: first you can try for free, you get addict, then you have to pay.
And both drug dealers and software companies refer to their clients as users.
It's shit like this that make me want to pursue a career in digging ditches with just a shovel, a bag of sandwiches, a thermos of coffee and the warm sunshine. Fuck the modern world. It jumped the rail a while ago now.
Fuckin' "A."
anyone with a yard should be tilling the soil and planting stuff, it's a nice hobby that gives you some fun things to eat, and if (well, kinda feels like when..) international trade goes to shit we'll have people who can keep us fed.
good
Is this even a surprise? Giving away free access to Copilot hemorrhages money and only exists to convert those users into paying customers. It costs them nothing to take away some features from these users.
The only real ways to prevent this are local hosting (which is much more realistic these days) or an explicit contract stating that the features you want will remain for the duration of the contract. The latter is not an option with GH Copilot, as far as I'm aware, and is basically nonexistent with any modern services.